The Transformation from Teaching to Facilitation: Experiences with Faculty Development Training

A shift from teaching to learning is characteristic of the introduction of Problem Based Learning (PBL) in an existingschool. As a consequence the teaching staff has to be trained in skills like facilitating group work and writing cases. Mostimportantly a change in thinking about teaching and learning will have to be realized. In the implementation of PBL itmakes a difference how the core features of the problem and the role of the facilitator have been defined. This paper willpresent components of a PBL faculty-development training programme and discuss the relevance with respect to a facultydevelopment strategy.